Held M Sennhauser U 2015 Lithium-ion batteries are well established for use in portable consumer products and are increasingly used in high power electro-mobility and photovoltaic storage applications. In hybrid and plug-in electric vehicles degradation and useful lifetime at standard operation conditions are critical parameters in addition to performance and safety. Here stress-induced ageing of commercially available high power battery cells of the type A123 AHR32113M1 Ultra-B, consisting of a LiFePO(4) cathode and a graphite anode have been investigated. A usually accepted capacity loss for electric vehicles of 20% was reached after 8560 stress profiles corresponding to a driving distance of almost 200'000 km. Cycling with a stress profile applying constant power corresponding to the average power and energy of a full stress profile and starting at 60% state of charge showed a much faster capacity loss. Electric impedance measurements show the dependence of the capacity loss and constant phase element at low frequency, indicating Li-ion diffusion blocking in the cathode. Microscopic analysis of anode, separator, and cathode, shows defect formation in bulk material and at interfaces. application/pdf https://sonar.ch/global/documents/235315 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.2533/chimia.2015.737 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/26842322 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Chimia. - 2015 Stress-induced Ageing of Lithium-Ion Batteries. http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501